Doctors in the UK have called for a ban on homeopathic medicine, the cessation of the NHS paying for it, and they have demanded that over-the-counter homeopathic medicine be labelled as having no proven worth.
Dr Tom Dolphin, from the BMA’s junior doctors committee, said that he had previously described homeopathy as witchcraft but now wanted to apologise to witches for making the link.
“Homeopathy is not witchcraft, it is nonsense on stilts,” he said.
“It is pernicious nonsense that feeds into a rising wave of irrationality which threatens to overwhelm the hard-won gains of the Enlightenment and the scientific method.
“We risk, as a society, slipping back into a state of magical thinking when made-up science passes for rational discourse and wishing for something to be true passes for proof.”
I love the unapologetic tone.
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For the Sake of Science 
Typo in 1st link: …BE labelled as having no proven worth.
Got it. Thanks.
Off to Fort Drum New York for a week of fun and medical appointments. Non-homeopathic ones I might add. Government doctors though, I’d debate whether there is any difference in effectiveness.